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Scotland’s shame
Stonewall’s grip on Holyrood has been strengthened — to the detriment of women
The revolution will not be tweeted
Gal Beckerman’s history of how high-speed communication prevents social change
Porn in a time of war
Ukrainian refugee pornography exploits suffering for profit
Like Stalin, like Putin
Putin is having his Stalin moment, and may regret it
Dreaming of la dolce vita in the deep freeze
A cultural renaissance is underway in a region once synonymous with Stalin’s brutal gulags
All right on the night
The enchanted world of nocturnal football
Is NATO to blame for the war in Ukraine?
Peter Hitchens and Adrian Pabst discuss NATO expansion and the tragic road to war in Eastern Europe
The Fortified Palace
Professor Jeremy Black talks about the fortified palaces and manor houses of the sixteenth century
Noel Coward’s public genius
This production of Private Lives amuses as much as it moves its audience
Dead men wave no flags
UK must not allow volunteers to fight in Ukraine
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?